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07-08 November No. 2 Contents THE ANTARCTICAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER “BY AND FOR ALL ANTARCTICANS” VOL. 07-08 NOVEMBER NO. 2 CONTENTS PRESIDENT ANNOUNCEMENTS.............................cover SOUTH GEORGIA ASSOCIATION.................... 5 Dr. Arthur B. Ford 400 Ringwood Avenue BRASH ICE................................................. 1 BRITISH SEABED CLAIM................................... 5 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (650) 851-1532 SPEAKER FOR JOINT MEETING........... 2 JERRY KOOYMAN AWARD............................... 6 [email protected] SOUTH POLE DEDICATION.................. 2 PHYLACTERIES AT THE SOUTH POLE.......... 6 VICE PRESIDENT Robert B. Flint, Jr. CD ROM STILL AVAILABLE.................... 2 CAM CRADDOCK TRIBUTE.............................. 7 185 Bear Gulch Road Woodside, CA 94062 ANTARCTIC MUSIC................................ 3 I KNEW YOUR FATHER...................................... 8 Phone: (650) 851-1532 [email protected] Type to enter text CONVERSATION WITH AMUNDSEN............. 8 Type to enter text TREASURER Type to enter text Dr. Paul C. Dalrymple Box 325, Port Clyde, ME 04855 Phone: (207) 372-6523 [email protected] ANNOUNCEMENTS SECRETARY Charles Lagerbom YOU NOW HAVE A CHOICE, NEWSLETTER WILL BECOME AVAILABLE 83 Achorn Rd. Belfast, ME 04915 ELECTRONICALLY. Starting with our next issue, anticipated in late January 2008, you (207)548-0923 can pick up your Newsletter on our new web site which will be up and running the first of [email protected] the year, Members who choose to receive issues on the website will be given a password WEBMASTER which will allow you access to the web site. And there will be a slight reduction (to be Thomas E. Henderson determined) in membership dues. Interested persons should contact our webmaster, Tom 520 Normanskill Place Henderson, whose address is shown on the masthead to the left. If you want to continue to Slingerlands, NY 12159 get hard copies of the Newsletter, just keep quiet! Phone: (518) 862-9623 [email protected] JOINT DINNER MEETING WITH THE EXPLORERS CLUB, WASHINGTON Past Presidents GROUP, INC., on Saturday, December 1, 2007, at the Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Dr. Carl R. Eklund 1959-61 Dr. Paul A. Siple 1961-62 Ave., NW. Dinner reservations, $65.00 (check payable to ECWG) should be sent to Donald Mr. Gordon D. Cartwright 1962-63 J. Gerson, 3148 Castleleigh Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20904-1713. Tel 240-293-6570. RADM David M. Tyree (Ret.) 1963-64 Speaker will be Dr. Anna Kerttula de Echave, the subject, The Human Face of Climate Mr. George R. Toney 1964-65 Mr. Morton J. Rubin 1965-66 Change. See page 2 of this Newsletter for further information. Dr. Albert P. Crary 1966-68 Dr. Henry M. Dater 1968-70 SPSE/SM STATION DEDICATION, January 12, 2008. The acronym is misleading Dr. George A. Doumani 1970-71 rd Dr. William J. L. Sladen 1971-73 unless you are a member of the Club. It stands for the 3 United States Amundsen -Scott Mr. Peter F. Bermel 1973-75 South Pole Station. Dr. Kenneth J. Bertrand 1975-77 Mrs. Paul A. Siple 1977-78 Dr. Paul C. Dalrymple 1978-80 ANTARCTICAN SOCIETY PREPARES TO MAKE FIRST DONATION FROM THE Dr. Meredith F. Burrill 1980-82 RUTH J. SIPLE FUND TO LIBRARY AT THE SOUTH POLE. See page 1. Dr. Mort D. Turner 1982-84 Dr. Edward P. Todd 1984-86 Mr. Robert H. T. Dodson 1986-88 CDs on Antarctican Society still on sale, see page 2 of this Newsletter. Checks for same, Dr. Robert H. Rutford 1988-90 $20.00 each, should be made out to the Antarctican Society, and mailed to Box 325, Port Mr. Guy G. Guthridge 1990-92 Clyde, ME 04855. Dr. Polly A. Penhale 1992-94 Mr. Tony K. Meunier 1994-96 Mr. Ron Naveen 1996-98 2008 HEDGEHOG ANTARCTIC CALENDARS still available until 10 December. For Dr. Paul C. Dalrymple 1998-00 US and Canada residents, $14.00 each. Checks payable to the Antarctican Society should be Ms. Kristin Larson 2000-02 Mr. John Splettstoesser 2002-04 mailed to Box 325, Port Clyde, ME 04855. Mr. Robert B. Flint Jr. 2004-07 BRASH ICE.These have been very busy days in the South Pole in a few weeks are shown in a the Head Sheds of the Antarctican Society, as we resume by Valmar on page 3. A complimentary are in the midst of some very radical changes set is being collected by Valmar which the Society which will hopefully guide our Society into a hopes to send to Palmer later in 2008. This is just continuous growth period with new, young the beginning of how our Society will enhance the invigorating members. This organization was libraries in the Antarctic through the Ruth J. Siple founded shortly after Plymouth and Jamestown, Fund, which will continue to be our Society’s and more Ancients and Honorables are dying than charity. Fresh, New Bloods are joining. Thanks to Tom Henderson, we have and are taking steps to We feel that it is most important to have the first change things. The first was his producing a contribution from the Ruth J. Siple Fund to be in historical document of who we have been, who the musical field, as music was one of Ruth’s true we currently are. It was a labor of true love by loves. She sang in the choral group at her college, Tom, one that Lou Lanzerotti of the most although we are not exactly certain on what basis prestigious National Science Board has described she was selected, as she was low-toned. Later on “ the CD is terrific. The history recorded is she took up the harp, and enjoyed playing that priceless.” And Dr. Chester Pierce of Harvard instrument for many years. She loved to listen to Medical wrote “a marvelous legacy for classical music, and daily listened to this FM generations to come.” station in Washington that featured classical music. She possessed a fine collection of Our next step forward, another Tom Henderson classical CD’s, which she often listened to in the Production, is the creation of an Antarctican confines of her home. It is most appropriate that Society Website. It is being field tested by some this Antarctic musical donation from the of our cornerstones, and we expect that it will be Antarctican Society’s Ruth J. Siple Fund be at this up and running by early January 2008. Tom time, the dedication of the 3rd South Pole Station. invites suggestions for improvement from all Ruth, herself, was at the dedication of the 2nd readers. Our Newsletters will go onto the website South Pole Station, and her late husband was the at the beginning of the year, but will be protected Grand Marshall of the 1st South Pole Station. from non-members access. So from now on our Newsletters will also be distributed electronically Valmar Kurol, a native of Saint John, New to those who take that option. The new site will be Brunswick, came into the Antartican scene found at www.antarctican.org. through his love for the Arctic. His first trip to Antarctica was on the Northern Ranger, and he And our third giant step forward is a plan now subsequently made four other trips to the 7th being worked out by a triumvirate of Tom, Jerry Continent. His most recent trip was in 2003 when Marty, and Katy Jensen whereby members he went with the Canadian Students on Ice wintering over at the South Pole and Palmer will Program headed up by Geoff Green. Valmar be given complimentary access to the website, produces an Antarctic Newsletter out of Montreal, including access to copies of our Newsletters. We the Seventh Continent, although at this time it is are going all out to make our Newsletters in a state of rest. Valmar is a tried and true something of interest to younger active members. musician in his own right, and his ANTARCTIC The complimentary access will be discontinued at ARRIVAL, produced in 1999, is a fine collection the end of winter, at which time we hope at least a of twelve Antarctic pieces. Buy it, you are sure to few of the current Antarcticans will want to enjoy it. He can be reached by e-mail: continue on as paying members – and hopefully [email protected]. contributors. Now for the bad news. We are going up in our As we announced on the cover page, our Society Membership dues, but only a modest amount, to is making its first contribution from the Ruth J. $15.00 per year. Still a bargain, less than half a Siple Fund to the South Pole Library, a handsome tank full of gas. However, for all of you faithful, box with a collection of Antarctic Music CDs we have a bit of good news. If you want to selected and procured for us by a musical expert extend before 31 December 2007, you can sign who just happens to be an Antarctican, Valmar up for the present rate: $12.00 per year. Kurol of Montreal. The list of the pieces going to 1 DR ANNA KERTTULA de ECHAVE ANTARCTICAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER SPEAKS. Our speaker at the December 1st CD-ROM STILL AVAILABLE! (Tom meeting with the Explorers Club Washington Henderson) The CD-ROM containing the entire Group (see cover sheet) will be an anthropologist archive of Antarctican Society newsletters and and native Alaskan who has been observing and other documents from 1959 – 2007 is still researching the people of the Arctic for over 40 available to members for the reasonable cost of years. She will talk about the ways in which $20. If you doubt that last assertion, consider: humans have been adapting, or in some cases not adapting, to unpredictable changes n climate for • The archive contains 1,802 individual millennia.
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